Charge: Woman raped after beating, kidnapping by lover

Published 10:00 pm, Thursday, July 1, 2010

A Tacoma man is in King County jail on allegations that he kidnapped his long-term girlfriend from her Tukwila home after beating her and forcing her to crawl around the house.

King County prosecutors contend Kimball G. Karlson-Martini, 29, attacked the woman -- his partner of six years with whom he was in an open relationship -- after she was with another man at a swingers club.

"The defendant brutally beat the victim with a deadly weapon and then secreted her to his home in Tacoma where he sexually assaulted her," Senior Deputy Prosecutor Jimmy I. Hung told the court, adding that he "fully anticipates that additional charges" will be filed in Pierce County.

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In late April, according to police statements, Karlson-Martini arrived at a sex club looking for the woman, who had been seen at the club the night before with another man. The woman later told detectives she believed Karlson-Martini was jealous of what had transpired at the sex club.

Speaking with Tukwila detectives after the April 30 incident, the woman said she and Karlson-Martini had been in an open relationship for six years and were members of a swingers club. She told officers their relationship had always been "vanilla" but that Karlson-Martini practiced domination over another woman living with them.

Having failed to find the woman at the sex club, Karlson-Martini went to a Tukwila home where the woman had been staying and attacked her with a thick wooden dowel, according to charging papers. Karlson-Martini head-butted her in the forehead, then forced her onto the bed, where he hit her about 30 times with the dowel.

Another woman came to the Tukwila house and found the woman, stripped to the waist with her back bleeding, kneeling in front of Karlson-Martini, Tukwila Detective Philip Glover said in court documents.

"Karlson-Martini told (her) he was 'sorting out' (the woman)," Glover told the court. "Afterwards, Karlson-Martini continued to order (her) to crawl around the house on her hands and knees in order to 'learn her lesson.'"

The second woman told police she went to sleep, the detective continued. She said she awoke to find Karlson-Martini, the alleged victim and Karlson-Martini's other girlfriend gone.

Writing the court, Glover said Karlson-Martini and his girlfriend took the woman to a Tacoma house where she was forced to write a letter stating that she "should be beaten" and that "Karlson-Martini's word is law."

King County prosecutors allege Karlson-Martini then bound and raped the woman. That allegation is being investigated by authorities in Pierce County.

The woman began to lose consciousness at some point, prompting Karlson-Martini and his girlfriend to take her to Tacoma General Hospital.

Questioned by police at the hospital, the woman denied any attack, Glover said. Karlson-Martini said her injuries -- an apparent concussion -- may have been caused by "stick fighting."

Tacoma police remained suspicious but did not arrest Karlson-Martini at the time. The woman detailed her ordeal when she spoke with Tukwila police two days later after her release from the hospital.

Speaking with detectives late last month, Karlson-Martini's girlfriend affirmed part of what the woman had told police and said Karlson-Martini had threatened to kill her. She continued, the detective told the court, asking that Karlson-Martini remain jailed "as she was deathly afraid of him and certain that he would seek her out and kill her."

Detectives arrested Karlson-Martini on June 23, according to charging documents. During a search of the Tacoma home that followed they located several items described by the woman as having been used against her.

Asking that Karlson-Martini be held on $350,000 bail, Hung, the deputy prosecutor, asserted that Karlson-Martini had been planning to attack the woman again.

"The state has grave concerns for the safety of the victim and witnesses in this case," Hung told the court. "According to one of the defendant's partners, the defendant … had been planning to abduct, torture and kill the victim, her daughter and other associates."

According to court documents, King County Superior Court Judge Mary Roberts set Karlson-Martini's $400,000 higher than requested by prosecutors. He remains confined at King County Jail on charges of first-degree kidnapping and second-degree assault.